Caldwell immediately summoned Lions general manager Bob Quinn and president Rod Wood, and Johnson said he talked to both men that day and later had phone conversations with most of the Ford family that owns the team.

It had to surprise him, cause then he told me to wait around and he got the GM and stuff,Johnson said. But I knew there was going to be a problem once Rod talked to me and the first thing out of his mouth was like, ‘Did you earn all your bonus?’ I was like, ‘Oh, shit.’ I knew right then it was going to be a problem. I was like, ‘All right, I see how it’s going to be.’

Johnson retired as the Lions’ all-time leading receiver with 731 catches for 11,619 yards and 83 touchdowns. Though he’s just 32 years old, he said doesn’t think he could play a game now even if he wanted to because of the toll the sport took on his body.

I don’t (think so), man, cause I get up from the bed sometimes in the morning, I’m just like, I shuffle across the ground cause I can’t bend my ankles,Johnson said. That was my problem when I played, just ankle’s always stuck or swelled up, I can’t flex them. If you can’t flex your ankles then you’re just running flat-footed all the time.

Cavaliers: James surpassed Michael Jordan (2,188) for the second-most made field goals in playoff history. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (2,356) tops the list. … James dropped to 48-8 in first-round games. … Green was 0 for 7 from the field, 0 for 3 from the line and the Cavs were outscored by 15 when he was on the floor.

He promised his sons, ages 8 and 10, that he would be there when they played tackle football to make sure they did it safely and correctly, and that time is at hand.

When it came down to it, I couldn’t take another year, 6-8 months, where I’m not there, said Harrison, who lives with his family in Pittsburgh. It just wasn’t worth it.

Not surprisingly, the Steelers did not pursue him as a free agent this year.

Harrison announced his retirement this week. Much has been debated about his legacy with the Steelers, especially after the somewhat ugly divorce at the end of last season, when the Steelers cut him and he signed with the Patriots three days later.

Boston was left fuming after center Riley Nash, who returned to the lineup after suffering an ear laceration on March 31, was ruled to have put the puck directly over the glass for a delay of game penalty with just over three minutes left in the first, even though replays suggested otherwise.

Toronto, which was 1 for 7 with the man advantage through the first two games, made the Bruins pay just 7 seconds later when van Riemsdyk scored his second goal of the series at 17:05 to give the Leafs their first lead of the series.

When it came down to it, I couldn’t take another year, 6-8 months, where I’m not there, he said. It just wasn’t worth it.

Harrison certainly made an impression on Bill Belichick, who gave him a glowing review shortly after he arrived in New England 15 weeks into the 2017 season.

It’s been fun getting to know Jrue this year, Rondo said. He’s a great person, even better person off the court than he is on the court.

Teammates say Holiday is in a good place right now. They know that life was cruel when his wife, Lauren, was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor while she was five months pregnant in June 2016.

Now he has a healthy wife and a healthy daughter named Jrue Tyler Holiday. Everyone calls her J.T.

It’s been great, Davis said of his teammate. All he wants to do is play basketball, and now that everything that was going on with him is squared away and doing fine, he’s just focused on playing, and he’s playing at a high level.

With his family in a good spot, Holiday has been able to focus on his performance on the court.

The Cardinals addressed needs at quarterback and on the offensive line, but after John Brown and Jaron Brown signed with Baltimore and Seattle, respectively, the Cardinals are thin on receivers behind Larry Fitzgerald. The only other receivers who saw somewhat regular action last season still on the roster are J.J. Nelson and Chad Williams. Arizona, while having been active in free agency, should still have enough cap room to find another receiver or two, perhaps one who can be a No. 2 or the heir apparent to Fitzgerald. — Josh Weinfuss

By not trading Foles before the date on which the roster bonus became due, the Eagles will pay the money — thereby reducing by $3 million his total compensation package for 2018. His salary, per NFLPA records, remains at $4 million. (It’s possible his playoff performance unlocked a $500,000 salary escalator.)

The fact that the Eagles will pay the bonus to Foles doesn’t automatically take him off the trade market. However, it could make the Eagles want a little bit more in exchange for Foles, given that they’ve already paid him $3 million.

Foles would surely want a new deal, if he’s eventually traded to a new team. Given the rash of free-agent quarterback signings in recent days (and the lack of obvious starting quarterback openings), there’s currently no obvious seat for Foles. Which means that the Eagles may have to wait for another Bridgewater-style stroke of bad luck for another team — and good luck for the Eagles — in order to flip Foles for picks like they did two years ago, when trading Sam Bradford after paying him an $11 million signing bonus on a two-year deal.

Given last year’s injury to Carson Wentz, the best move for the Eagles could be to keep Foles. But Foles, who played a key role in delivering the city its first ever Super Bowl championship, could be interested in getting a chance to start elsewhere now.

The next order of business is developing a comfort level with the man not known as McHomes.

Comfort level is extremely high, Reid said. Does that mean I am not going to grind on him? It is all roses right now. That he isn’t going to hit a rough spot here or there during the season? Well, it happens. It happens to every quarterback in the National Football League. But he is wired the right way, I know that. Now he just has to go do it. Everything else is speculation to this point. We feel like we have narrowed that down a little bit to where we are comfortable with it. Now it is just a matter of us doing a good job coaching and him, doing a good job playing and the guys around him doing their thing and we roll.

Assisting the comfort level is the fact that Mahomes started the last game of the 2017 regular season.

I had the honor of working with Patrick this past season, in particular, in a closer relationship for the Denver game, Reid said. Almost like a dress rehearsal not knowing that we were going to make this move with Alex [Smith]. Definitely knew that Matt Nagy was probably going to be out the door as a coach.